The origins of the forebears of Presbyterian
Irish William
Givan, Sr. are unknown but they were likely from the Scottish
Lowlands.
There were Givans in the early 1600's in the county of East Lothian in
the Scottish Lowlands (number 12 above) listed in the International
Genealogy
Index.It is believed that the Givens/Givans migrated from
Scotland to Ulster, Ireland during or
after
the Ulster Plantation of the early 1600's initiated during the reign of
James VI/I of Scotland and England. There is evidence that Givans
were at Dungiven in County (London)Derry, Ireland by the mid-1600's.Likewise, Hamilton is a surname from the Scottish
Lowlands so our Irish Hamiltons may also have originated in that region.

James
Sutherland, Sr., was a sergeant in the 59th regiment and was born
in Tain,
Ross-shire in the late 1700's as stated in the regimental casualty
lists. Nothing else is known of his forebears
at this time but
Sutherland is a common name from the Scottish Highlands, and the main
export of
the feudal/clan system within the Highlands was men with fighting
ability.
In the Highland uprising of 1745, the Sutherland clan was one of the
northern
clans that remained loyal to the reigning House of Hanover in contrast
to the followers of "Bonnie Prince Charlie", the last of the exiled
Stuarts in France.The county of Sutherland is number 31 in the map
above,
a distinction which disappeared after 1975 when it was incorporated
into
the larger region simply called Highland.As seen below in a map from 1645, the county of
"Southerland"
was a more localized region at that time centred on Dornoch which was
just
north across the Dornoch Firth from Tain in east Ross-shire.

Tain in 1730 (the birthplace of James Sutherland, Sr.)

James' son James Sutherland Jr. later also served
in the 59th Regiment but never lived in
Scotland. Later, when married, James Jr. was stationed in Ireland
at least from 1848 to 1852 where three of his children were born before
retiring to England.